Google| Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
| From | Savageduck |
| Date | 12/06/2013 19:35 (12/06/2013 10:35) |
| Message-ID | <2013120610352655258-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> |
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| Follows | Floyd L. Davidson |
| Followups | Floyd L. Davidson (8h & 1m) > Savageduck |
On 2013-12-06 17:46:41 +0000, floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) said:
Floyd L. DavidsonThat image has been the target of Capa detractors for over 70 years. The bottom line is the negative has not been found. The man in the images, a series of 7 shots, Frederico Borrell Garcia, was shot and killed on the day the photograph was taken. The most likely of the scenarios spun was, Garcia was actually posing for Capa out in the open when he was shot, and Capa was as surprised by the event as Garcia, and was lucky not to have been shot himself. < http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/27/arts/20080127_KENN_SLIDESHOW_index-3.html
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:SavageduckPeterN
Should Robert Capa, then not have been considered a "top photographer"?
He had an instinct for dram and how light affects the image.SavageduckFloyd L. Davidson
He had a talent for being where the action was and documenting that action in whatever light was available. He wasn't able to wait around for suitable light for an art shot. He wasn't particularly interested in producing art and that was what killed him in Viet Nam.
However, in fact Robert Capa had a talend for knowing what would sell, and how to create that if he wasn't close enough to the real action.SavageduckFloyd L. Davidson
Not much planning or pre-visualizing here, and he did none of his own developing and printing. He was a photographer, pure and simple. He provided his agency with rolls of exposed film. < http://barbarapicci.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/robert-capa-2.jpg?w=1200&h= >
That image is commonly known as "The Falling Soldier" and was taken in Spain, apparently on September 5, 1936 near the "Cordoba front" at Cerro Muriano in Andalusia.
The problem is that the the landscape shown in the image is in fact located 30 miles away from the front, near Espejo, Cordoba and was well removed any actual battle.
Which is to say your "not much planning or pre-visualization" here is exactly the opposite. It was a bit too much planning. The image was staged.
(Keep in mind that Capa was 22 years old.)
The other thing to consider was the level of propaganda produced by both sides during the Spanish Civil War. Fifth Column was a term developed by the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War, giving Franco's followers an alibi for wholesale slaughter of civilians and discrediting of journalists like Orwell, Hemingway, & Martha Gellhorn, and photographers such as Capa.
Regardless of the authenticity of "The Falling Soldier", staged or not, Capa's WWII, China, and Indo-China/Viet Nam work stands alone in its authenticity and capturing the moment without staging or "pre-visualization".
< http://kirolosabdelsayed.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/robert_capa_-_235.jpg >
-- Regards,
Savageduck
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